Básico 2

Básico 2-1 y Bas 2-3: If you couldn't come to school, this is your homework for these holidays.
Básico 2-1, do also the reading exercise on page 25 in your classbook.

You have to read at least a book in English before May and write a report. You can write as many as you like.Here you are an example of what you can do.
And on this site you can find different templates, choose the one you like best:

Monday, 25 November 2013

I hope it works. Read the texts you wrote in class and choose your favourite. Just click on the team and send your answer.
Thank you for taking part.
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Team 1
I was lying in my armchair in the rainy afternoon, when I fell asleep and I had a strange dream. In my dream I was travelling by train, and I was next to the window, I saw many mountains and it was sunny. Suddenly I heard a woman that was crying because somebody stole her jewels, when she went for a walk with her dog. Then, to my surprise, I saw a horse on the train when I was putting on my glasses. It was awful; the horse was on the plane. Finally, the woman found a lot of money and after that I was woke up, it was at ten to two and it was all just a dream.

Team 2
We went on holidays to the coast by plane. There, they sent a carriage pulled by a horse to pick us up. This day, the weather was perfect because it was sunny all the morning and we wore a hat and a sunglasses.
Suddenly, in the afternoon it was raining and we bought an umbrella to go home.
We went to the forest to catch wood because we wanted to light a fire. Then, we found a spider and we shouted.
Two of us brought wood and the other opened the door to enter the house.
Noelia played the piano while Águeda and Andrea sat on an armchair and finally we watched a TV movie of castles and princesses.

Team 3

Iwas sitting in front of the televisión late in the evening, when I fell asleep and I had a strange dream...
I was near the window and I was looking at the mountains. There was a bag in my hand but I didin´t know why.
Suddenly a bird came into the room. It carried a bunch of flowers and a letter for me. Then, to my surprise, in the envelope there was a train ticket and some money.
Unfortunately when I arrived, the place was a horrible castle, and there were spiders everywhere. On the first floor, the fireplace was lit, and when I was there, I heard a beautiful melody.
Finally I went upstairs and I saw a television on and a hot cup of tea.
I was in my armchair, and I woke up.

Team 4
When I was travelling by train I found a suitcase full of money . While I was drinking a red wine suddenly I saw a horse , it was wearing a denim hat and it was talking to an ellegant dog . They wanted to buy a necklace for their friend the spider because they were going to a party in the spider's castle.
The party started at 2 o'clock. When they opened the door they listened to awful music and they saw that all the furniture was burning .
Finally I woke up and I was arriving at the beach .

Team 5
In the dream I was sitting above the television , then I saw my dog making the dinner, wearing an old woman's dress , suddenly an old woman ate a watch, as she took out flowers of from her eyes with empty basins.
Then, to my surprise I crossed a door and appeared in the darkest shadows of my living room and reappeared in a dark, ominous and suffocating swamp, then an umbrella emerged from the thick, stinking water, and launched into a strange and bizarre conversation with a tree about the reproduction of the Dead. Before I realized, the umbrella and the tree were transformed into two old women, who were dressed in long black dresses of funeral, they took off their black veils and had strange smiles, then they didn't stop laughing while in the background you could hear Gloomy Sunday.
I could not stand the situation and I collapsed , then the door reappeared from the shadows of the sawmp , and I returned to my house when I had some a cup of tea, sitting in the sofa with my dog.

Team 6

We were travelling by train, we went to the beach when we saw a black and white dog. It was wearing a dress and a beautiful necklace, it was flying on a small carpet.

Suddenly the small carpet landed in the garden of a castle; then the dog went inside and it sat in front of the fireplace. It was listening to classical music when somebody knocked at the main door.

Then, to our surprise, there was a horse with a hat which was carrying a letter and a bunch of flowers.

Unfortunately the dog didn't have any money and it gave it to a big terrible spider.

Finally the horse ran away quickly.

Team 7
I HAD A DREAM
I was watching TV when I had a dream. I was walking out with my dog when a saw a plane fall. I cleaned my glasses and I could see better. Then, to my surprise it wasn´t a plane, it was a big black bird. The bird brougth me a letter. The letter as a invitation to visit Eurodisney with all my family. Suddenly, a woman who was wearing a hat told me: "Don't go there. It's very expensive." Then, I woke up because my alarm clock went off. It was time to go to work.

Team 8

I was sitting in front of the televisión late one evening, when I fell asleep and I had a strange dream…
In the dream I was a spider, I was dancing in the hat. I was wearing a dress with flowers.
Suddenly the door opened and a dog came into the room. The dog was wearing an expensive necklace.
Then to my surprise, the window broke and a black bird flew into the chimney. Unfortunately it burned.
Finally a man who was riding a horse appeared and coaught the hat. I fell on the suitcase which was on the carpet, and unfortunately the horse tripped on the carpet and broke the suitcase and I died.

Would you like to know more about Halloween. Download this powerpoint and learn useful words.

After that, you can do this reading exercise

And this is the speaking activity we worked with in class. If you want you can use the questions in one of the last slides to write a short story. You can hand it in in class or email it to me.

Your homework for next week is exercise 5 and the reading in this worksheet . If you can, read one of the texts on the first page of unit 2A and answer the reading questions on the left for the person you chose.

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Some people told me yesterday they had problems with the PowerPoint "Houses". After downloading the presentation, open the file.Then press F5 to view the presentation. Now you will be able to listen to the words. But remember, there is no sound until slide 5, parts of the house.
Another posibility is to download this other presentation. Click here.
I've uploaded some extra listening tasks.
We'll work with this presentation about quantifiers next week.

Monday, 15 April 2013

Homework for Wednesday:
Student's book, page 137, Section 4B, exercises A and B.
Reading on pages 58 and 59.Conditional sentences: What would you do if...?
Click on the link above and practise conditional sentences in different ways.
This is a presentation to revise conditionals types 0, 1 and two.

And this is to practise vocabulary related to "The House". If you click on the words you'll hear the pronunciation.

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Do the writing activity at the end of unit 6. You can write a review of a film or a book, following the structure and using the expressions on page 97. Remember: when you tell the plot of a film or a book you must use present tenses, as in the text about Cinema Paradiso.

We'll correct the grammar, vocabulary on page 98 and the reading on page 99.

These are the answers to the reading on page 94. We won't do it in class, so this is voluntary work.

a)

Aung San Suu-Kyi - 5

Bono - 1

Thierry Henry - 2

Bernard Kouchner - 3

Queen Rania of Jordan - 4

b)

A - Thierry Henry

B - Queen Rania of Jordan

C - Bono

D - Aung San Suu-Kyi

E - Bernard Kouchner

c)

Bono. He couldn't take the child with him

Queen Rania of Jordan by getting children vaccinated.

Aung San Suu-Kyi. She chose her job.

Bernard Kourchner. He participated actively himself in aid work.

Bono and Thierry Henry. Bono is trying to free Africa of hunger and poverty, and Henry is trying to eradicate racism from sport.

Is Casablanca your favourite classic film? This is part of the video we watched in class last week.The following sentences all appear in the film trailer. Number them 1-8 according to the order you hear them.
a) _____ Isn’t it about time we play it again?
b) _____ Ingrid Bergman is Ilsa, the last woman he ever expected to see.
c) _____ If you knew how much I loved you, how much I still love you.
d) _____ He’s travelling with a lady.
e) _____ You have to think for both of us. For all of us.
f) _____ I stick my neck out for nobody.
g) _____ There is a man arrived in Casablanca on his way to America.
h) _____ That’s my least vulnerable spot.

The answers are at the bottom of the post.

This is to revise relatives:

Intermedio 1-2: we'll correct this worksheet on Monday. Intermedio 1-1: we corrected it today.
Here you can practise defining and non defining relative clauses. Don't worry if you are told the answers you've typed are incorrect. Click "Show answer" and you will be given all the options. You can write the answers on a piece of paper instead. On this site you can work on other grammar points.CASABLANCA Answers: a-8 b- 4 c-5 d-3 e-6 f-1 g-2 h-7

Watch this video of three teachers talking about their daily
routine.Ve este vídeo de tres profesores hablando de su rutina diaria.
There are subtitles to help you understand what they say.Hay subtítulos para ayudarte a entender lo que dicen.
Then
complete each sentence with the name of each teacher: Kim Ashman (KM), San
Valentine (SV) or Claire Gowran (CG).Luego completa cada frase con el nombre de un profesor...
The answers are below the video.Las respuestas están después del vídeo.

___________ wakes up the first of the three
teachers.

___________ doesn’t do any exercise.

___________ doesn’t watch TV in the evening.

___________ does exercise in the afternoon.

___________ uses his / her computer in the
morning.

___________ goes to bed very late.

___________ has two showers every day.

___________ finishes work the last (=el último).

___________ reads a book to her children.

___________ has a shower after lunch.

CG wakes up the first of the three teachers.

SV doesn’t do any exercise.

CG doesn’t watch TV in the
evening.

CG does exercise in the morning.

SV uses his / her computer in
the morning.

SV goes to bed very late.

CG has two showers every day.

KA finishes work the last (=el
último).

SV reads a book to her
children.

KA has a shower after lunch.

I hope this PowerPoint helps you with prepositions. There are some expressions that you don't need to learn this year.Espero que esta presentación os ayude con las preposiciones. Hay expresiones que no necesitáis aprender este año.

And this is the listening about Alfie we did in class the other day: exercise, audio

Friday, 1 February 2013

These are the reading comprehension worksheets (with answers) I gave in class yesterday. You can use them to practise before the exam.Estos son los readings con respuestas que os di en clase ayer. Podéis usarlos para practicar antes del examen.
Before printing, check that you don't have a copy in paper.Antes de imprimir, comprobad que no tenéis una copia en papel.

I think I gave you a copy of some exercises for the video below long, long time ago. If you don't have it, you can download it. Watch the video as many times as you need. When you finish you can click here to see the answers.Creo que os di una copia de unos ejercicios para el vídeo a continuación hace mucho, mucho tiempo. Si no la tenéis, podési descargarla Ved el vídeo tantas veces como necesitéis. Cuando acabéis podéis hacer clic aquí para ver las respuestas.

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

The February exam (reading, listening and writing) will be on 4th / 5th of February, in class.These are the answers to the grammar bank exercises in your student's book, unit 2.Download the worksheet and do the reading about money for Wednesday/Thursday and the one about holidays for next week.
And here you are the grammar for "Reported speech: commands and requests".